Mental Fishing – Your Mental Game Snags For three decades I have worked with individuals to enhance performance. Inevitably it always comes back to decision making. That is never more true...
Mental Fishing – Intellectual Humility with Charles Plott of PAS Profile Humility in this sense is NOT thinking less of your ability or judgment. I mean humility in the sense that you recognize and disregard your personal...
Mental Fishing – Intellectual Integrity with Charles Plott of PAS Profile Our first discussion on “critical thinking,†or what I call high performance decision making, starts with the concept of intellectual...
Mental Fishing – Critcal Thinking Explored Recent discussions with a top angler and a book on critical thinking have me searching for the holy grail of competitive bass fishing. I have long...
Mental Fishing – The Voices in My Head Examining Self Talk We all have a dialogue running through our head. Some of us have a much richer and louder internal dialogue than others. Fishing does little to...
Mental Fishing – Developing Mental Toughness Make your Mind Over the Matter A local sports psychologist conducts a Mental Toughness Boot Camp. I find that both comical and spot on! His program is a 10 week journey that hopes...
Mental Fishing – Prep for the Big Event – Part 3 The Classic Approaches Steps One and Two prepare us for the third and final piece of preparation for a Big Event. Step Three: Getting in Character and Staying in...
Mental Fishing – Prep for the Big Event – Part Two Getting in the Zone Once you have step one out of the way and you know that “success” is working the process you have created to the best of your ability, then we...
Mental Fishing – Prep for the Big Event – Part One Develop a Plan for Success Bass fishing and NASCAR share something in common. Both start their season with the Big Event. Granted, the Classic is really the culmination of the...
Mental Fishing – Becoming a Competitive Angler Fish with Purpose What truly separates the casual angler from the competitive anglers we see on television or speeding down the lake in their fancy paid-for boats? I...
Mental Fishing – Knowing Your Goal, Define Goals to Enhance Fishing Success Competitive athletes have a simple goal when they compete: WIN! In most sports, bass fishing included, winning is reduced down to a process, that...
Mental Fishing – Discovering Your Style How Style Influences Performance Everybody has their own personal style, I don’t mean what kind of clothes we like to wear, but the way in which we gather information, assimilate...